A new maintenance release of the E2E Bridge has been released. With this edition of our E2E Developer Newsletter we inform you about the latest features and bug fixes of the E2E Bridge software components. As usual, you find all details in our release notes that are provided in our Online Documentation.

With this release we present the new Bridge API.

Overview of the new E2E Bridge API

Some Bridge resources now can be accessed via a RESTful E2E Bridge API and you can view the API documentation online via the Bridge’s user interface, for example you can get statuses of all services, and update service preferences and settings. In upcoming releases we will increase the number of resources that are accessible via the Bridge API.

Please note that concerning the new Bridge API this is a preview release, which means that we do not yet guarantee backwards compatibility from this version on, as the Bridge API may be still subject of change.

On this page, you can inspect the Bridge API interface and make HTTP calls to the resources.

For more details, refer to our online documentation at E2E Bridge API.

Migration Notes

With E2E Bridge 6.0.56.1 we updated Node.js to Node.js LTS v4 Release 4.4.6. If you run Node.js services with native modules, the native modules must be updated to work with Node.js 4.4.x. If you use E2E Restifier for SAP 1.x, you have to update to version 2.0.0.

The Release at a glance

E2E Bridge

E2E Builder

E2E Analyzer

E2E Runtime

6.0.56.2 (64-bit only)

5.1.56.2

both contain xUML Runtime 2016.5

6.0.18.1 (64-bit only)

5.1.18.1

both contain xUML Runtime 2016.5

6.0.18.1 (64-bit only)

5.1.18.1

2016.5

Please note that on all operating systems, E2E Builder and E2E Bridge of version 6.0 are distributed in 64bit only.

Important note: Whether or not you are required to upgrade one or more of your E2E Bridge platform components may depend on a variety of factors. Please check the relevant release notes for details. Please pay special attention to the Builder Release Notes and Analyzer Release Notes, which list all dependencies between Builder / Analyzer and xUML Runtime.

What’s new in detail

The release provides new features and improvements in different areas, as well as bug fixes. These are the highlights: